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...think the Miss America program is moving along, looking for another kind of woman," explained Winner for 1974 Rebecca Ann King to the Today Show's Barbara Walters as they discussed this year's consciousness-raised Atlantic City pageant. Certainly the former Miss Colorado showed herself to be one of a new breed. Her eyes remained dry throughout her coronation. When her sister said she expected to see Becky cry only on her wedding day, Becky retorted: "That's not a very realistic possibility," adding that she might not even get married. Ms. America, an Iowa farmer...
...idea for the pageant began in 1969 when Martha Knight, head of the local ballet theater, choreographed a religious ballet for her student group. Philip Dodson, music director of the First Baptist Church, saw it and asked if she would come talk to him. As Martha Knight recalls it, Dodson said, "I have a dream," and she blurted out, "I think I have the same dream...
...dreamers had written a narration based on the Gospels and put together a tape of selections from Handel and Berlioz, which they played for John Lavender, the soft-spoken pastor of the First Baptist Church. He was quickly sold on the idea of a pageant, and soon found an anonymous angel who put up $20,000 to get production started...
...take on a dynamism of its own. "I call it the Gothic psyche," says Dodson. "There you had thousands of people in the Dark Ages who were part of a spiritual movement to build cathedrals. Here we have a spiritual movement among hundreds of people to have a pageant...
Here are Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson, two players of skill and intelligence, lending dignity and a measure of passion to a sort of pocket pageant that could bring out the worst in any actor. Rattigan's script-an adaptation of his play A Bequest to the Nation-is a damp recounting of the infamous romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, a liaison that scandalized Georgian London and threatened, for a time, Britain's naval might...